Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

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

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

Why? Oh, well - I thought you'd be rather an attractive person to marry. That's all. I mean, I sort of took a fancy to you. I can't tell you why. There's no rule about it, you know.

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

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.