Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.