Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.