Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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

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

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