"A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself."

"What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery."

"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income."

"The risks of liberty we must let everyone take, but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter."

"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"He who can does. He who can't teaches."

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."

"Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."

"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

"Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error."

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"

"In heaven an angel is no one in particular."

"This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."

"An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."

"There is always danger for those who are afraid."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work."

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."

"The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart."

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes."

"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."

"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity."

"Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty."

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history."

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

"He knows nothing he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career."

"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

"Life would be tolerable but for its amusements."

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

"The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas."