... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.