“There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.”

“Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.”

“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.”

“Of the last two friends of yours who had the modern mind; one thought it wrong to eat fishes and the other thought it right to eat men...”

“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.”

“It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.”

“The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”