It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.