You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Men are expendable; women and children are not. A tribe or a nation can lose a high percentage of its men and still pick up the pieces and go on ... as long as the women and children are saved.