The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.