If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.