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

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.