Society and the World

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

THERE IS ONLY ONE POSITION FOR AN ARTIST ANYWHERE: AND THAT IS, UPRIGHT.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

THERE ARE TWO MEN INSIDE THE ARTIST, THE POET AND THE CRAFTSMAN. ONE IS BORN A POET. ONE BECOMES A CRAFTSMAN.

EASY READING IS DAMN HARD WRITING.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm Going to be if I Grow up'.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.

The quickest way to make a million? Marry it.

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.

Generals detest generals on their own side far more than they dislike the enemy.

I'm sorry, my good fellow, but all my money is tied up in currency.

The general was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

We are here on earth to do good for others; what the others are here for I have no idea.

We are here on earth to do good for others; what the others are here for I have no idea.

Now that he was rich he was not thought ignorant any more, but simply eccentric.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, january, September, April, November, May, March, june, December, August and February.

I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.