When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.