While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.