Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.