Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

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.

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.