How unreliable is the woman caught being faithful! Today she is faithful to you, tomorrow to another.

The blind won't admit that I have eyes in my head, and the deaf say that I'm dumb.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

Hate must make a man productive. Otherwise one might as well love.

When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.