Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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!

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.