A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.