The Creator has – I say it in all reverence – drawn a myriad red herrings across the track, but the true scientist refuses to be baffled by superficial appearances in detecting the secrets of...

New York is the great stone desert.

It takes two men to make one brother.

No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of a ‘grand passion’ than of a grand opera.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear...

Everything changes but change.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan – spoiled.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

America is God’s Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you – he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.