Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.