War does not decide who is right but who is left.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.