Progress is the mother of all problems.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.