For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

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

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.