The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.