Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.