Everything matters. Nothing's important.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.