I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness