Great Throughts Treasury

"Mankind is safer when men seek pleasure than when they seek the power and the glory."

"The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever."

"The trouble with my wife is that she is a whore in the kitchen and a cook in bed."

"The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus-man is a wolf to man ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves."