We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.