Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.