I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.