“We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.”

“Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off.”

“...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of one idea, but now we are more nervous, more developed, more sensitive; men capable of two or three ideas at once...Modern men are broader-minded - and I swear that this prevents their being so all-of-a-piece as they were in those days.”

“Men and women play the same game but with different rules.”

“All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.”

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”