Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
