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

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

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

Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

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.