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

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.