If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.