I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.