This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel. Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.

Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

When men and women pick one another up for just a bit of fun, they find they’ve picked up more than they bargained for, because men and women have a top story as well as a ground floor, and you can’t have the one without the other.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

End of Project Gutenberg's Maxims for Revolutionists, by George Bernard Shaw

If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

[Transcriber's note: He spelled it 'Shakespear'. He spelled Caesar with an ae ligature.]

Make your cross your crutch; but when you see another man do it, beware of him.

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.