What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.

A fine morning's killing, ay! All their necks wrung - all dead birds! Once they could fly - fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now - and sold cheap in the open market!

Patriotism is understood to be that virtue which consists in serving one's country; but in what way is this 'Patria' or country served by slaying its able bodied men in thousands?

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.