I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.