The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

I want to be all used up when I die.