Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

I feel sure that coups d'?tat would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

That ephemeral sheet,... the newspaper, is the natural enemy of the book, as the whore is of the decent woman.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.