When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.