For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.