Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.