Quotes & Notes

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

There is this to be said in favour of the despot, that he, being an individual, may have culture, while the mob, being a monster, has none.  One who is an Emperor and King may stoop down to pick up a brush for a painter, but when the democracy stoops down it is merely to throw mud.