In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.