All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.