Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
