There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.