If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.