The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?