Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.