You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.