Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Do you think that it is possible to have a mere taste of commonness? Either one hates it or makes common cause with it.

You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.