As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

If we had the power of ten Shakespeares or a dozen Mozarts, we could not produce anything half so marvelous as one ordinary human child.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?