The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.