It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.