Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.