The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.

Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

At times I think and at times I am.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.