Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.