Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.