If you mean to profit, learn to please.

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.