Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.