God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.