You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.