Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

If you want to write, keep cats.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.