A great social reformer.

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Remember that I too am mortal.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.