What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

I never expect a soldier to think.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.