What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.