The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.