Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.
The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.
Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
Religion is caught, not taught.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.