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.

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

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness