You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.