"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

"The impotence of God is infinite."

"Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me."

"Nothing spoils a confession like repentance."

". . .everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said."

"Innocence more often than not is a piece of good fortune rather than a virtue."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."

"Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice..."

"'We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."

"A functioning police state needs no police."

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."