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

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.