Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.