The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

Heroes exterminate each other for the benefit of people who are not heroes.

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.