NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.