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

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject