Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.