Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that