There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.