Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

Stimulate the phagocytes.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

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 real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.