The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.