“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”

“Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people.”

“Where facts are few, experts are many.”

“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.”

“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”

“As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.”

“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that’s not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.”