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.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.