No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Literature is the Thought of thinking Souls.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but…

I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and str…

Shaw's emotional development was one with his intellectual strength. His path led him into the thick of the scrimmage, where more spontaneous natures defend th…

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.