Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.