When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.