The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.