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.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right.