The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.