Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie.

At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women, and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.