If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.