Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.