One sometimes feels a guest of one’s time and not a member of its household.
Category Archive: February 16
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.