What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.