More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.