Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.

The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can pass out of eternity into the soul, and through which love can pass from one soul in time to another soul in time.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.