The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humoredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
