All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.