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.

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.