The world belongs to the discontented.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.