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.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.