"Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything."

"And is there no war on today? It is the weapons that have changed, that's all. Instead of an axe or scythe or scimita…"

"For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others."

"In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are …"

"Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it."

"Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient."

"There are neither graves nor death in Nature; there are various forms of existence, some of which enable us to be che…"

"‘There are two men in me,’ he thought, ‘one quite sensible, the other a lunatic. But I am not concerned with that any…"

"Your true Pole starts to sweat at the second decimal place, at the fifth he runs a temperature, and at the seventh ha…"

"Nature has done well and wisely, in not permitting a man to live forever and in bringing into the world ever new gene…"