It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.