The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.