The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.