Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

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

The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.