There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.