Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.