We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.