Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

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

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.