"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness."

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."

"A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone."

"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"The world wants to be cheated. So cheat."