The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried . . . not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.