Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.