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.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.