The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Theology is simply that part of religion that requires brains.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.