It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.