We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

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

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.