In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

I like man, but not men.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

All things are known to the soul.