What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.