If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

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

I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.