All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.