Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.