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.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.