We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.