If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Success is never final.