Most people are boring and stupid.

I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.