“You won't be a wiser man if you always keep away from bad people or poor ones.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.”

“I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.”

“You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists”

“...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...”