The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.