It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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.