Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.

Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.