I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

Though the worship of riches is an old religion, there has never been a danger that it might become the sole religion. And yet that is what is surely going to happen in the world.

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful thrill he feels himself.

there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only sort from which any true private pleasure can be gained, for it is a way of getting something out of life which seemed to be there in childhood, when childhood is quite over.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

I know what kind of people would have the hottest corner in my conception of hell. It would be those who have helped to give goodness a bad name.

... nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.