I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

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

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.