Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

All progress means war with society.