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

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.