But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

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

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

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

What the Church should be telling him [the carpenter] is this: that the very first demand that his religion makes upon him is that he should make good tables.

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?