“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.”

“The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.”

“Comparison is the death of joy.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.”

“The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.”