No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.