The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.