As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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.