The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.