Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.