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.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.