He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

Truth is so often disconcerting.