» Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
» God is on everyone's side … and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
» Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
» The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.