The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

Take not thy thunder from us, but take away our pride.