Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats—I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

...more than six people cannot agree on anything, three is better and one is perfect for a job that one can do. This is why parliamentary bodies all through history, when they accomplished anything, owed it to a few strong men who dominated the rest.