Optimism is cowardice.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.