Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.