Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.