I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.