The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Very few people can afford to be poor.