Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.