Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.