Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes