Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!
Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.