Where there is most labour there is not always most life.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.
Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.