Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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

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.