I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational. - Oscar Wilde

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever. Fortunately, in America journalism has carried its authority to the grossest and most brutal extreme. As a natural consequence it has begun to create a spirit of revolt, people are amused by it, or disgusted by it, according to their temperaments. but it is no longer the real force it was. It is not seriously treated. In England, journalism, except in a few well-known instances, not having been carried to such excesses of brutality, is still a great factor, a remarkable power. The tyranny that it proposes to exercise over people's private lives seems to me to be quite extraordinary.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure