Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.