What happens to you here is forever.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.