He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.