When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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