If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.