Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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