“The simplification of anything is always sensational.”

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.” 

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

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

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

“The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.”

“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”

“I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.” 

“Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.”

“Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.”

“The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.”

“The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.”

“How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.” 

“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. 

“The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.” 

“I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.”

“It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.”

“I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.” 

“The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.”

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”

“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.” 

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”