Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.