The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.