I like criticism, but it must be my way.

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.