The mania of thinking renders one unfit for every activity.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Intelligent women always marry fools