Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

We are all special cases.