Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.