Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.