A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.