The vulgar mind always mistakes the exceptional for the important.

Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

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