All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.