The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

No man knows he is young while he is young.