It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Atheism is too theological.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.