A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

Old age and youth cannot live together.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.