I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earthwas flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, "Look at it." Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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