The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

Love is a trick played on us by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end and only might is right.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.

Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.