An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific 'truth' of today becomes the discarded error of tomorrow.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

My literary success meant nothing to me

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.