I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.