When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

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.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.