As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.