Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

Victory is a political fiction.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.