- The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich because he’s always ready to escape their control
- Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to regard society as a forest full of robbers, the most dangerous of which are the policemen that are set up to stop the others.
- Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
- Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
- In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen, in small things, they show themselves as they are