The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.