It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.