You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?