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

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.