A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.