An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident enabling unpopular persons to survive.

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.

All movements go too far.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.