It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

It would be a sad situation if the bag was better than the meat wrapped in it.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.