You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations

The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do