Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.