Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke, know themselves to be innocent as lambs, while they pray hypocritically for deliverance.

Combativeness was, I suppose, the dominant trait in my grandmother's nature. An aggressive churchgoer, she was quite without Christian feeling; the mercy of the Lord Jesus had never entered her heart. Her piety was an act of war against Protestant ascendancy. ...The teachings of the Church did not interest her, except as they were a rebuke to others.

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.