The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."