Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially: it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without authority. Divine right needs no whip.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

My own education operated by a succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment: it must stand or fall by its results.

No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespear.