The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

All Artists are Anarchists.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night