Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.