Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.