We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?