Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.