America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur rather than that any one of them should suffer some infinitesimal rebuff to his country`s pride.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.