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

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.