The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.