We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.