There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.