Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Style is effectiveness of assertion.

An index is a great leveller.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.