Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.