I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."