The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.