Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.