Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.

Ending is better than mending.

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.