Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Men still have to be governed by deception.

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.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.