Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.