When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.