There is nothing in religion but fiction.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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.