He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'