The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

A great social reformer.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.