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

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.