We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.