Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?