The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness.

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate.

One of the most valuable philosophical features of journalism is that it realizes that truth is not a solid but a fluid.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridicu-losa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

One of the most valuable philosophical features of journalism is that it realizes that truth is not a solid but a fluid.