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

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.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.