"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?" "
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
"Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends...."
"Marriage: When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part." Quotes by George Bernard Shaw