Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?