"My country, right or wrong, " is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober. "

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and indepen ...

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot b ...

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.