Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.