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

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.