If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.