Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Wherever there is animal worship, there is human sacrifice.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.