Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

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.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

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