“Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.” 

“The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.” 

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. 

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. 

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

“Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.” 

The only object of liberty is life.” 

“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 be a masterpiece.” 

“Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.”

“The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.” 

“It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men – so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. “I say God is One,” and “I say God is One but also Three,” that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.” 

“There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.”

“There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.” 

“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.” 

“The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.”

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