I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.