You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

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

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.