In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.