The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.