Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.