An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.