Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.