I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice