We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?