It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.