Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.