There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

Change is not progress.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.