The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.