The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.