Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.