Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.