One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

There's truths you have to grow into.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.