The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.