Children and fools always speak the truth

To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.