Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.