Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.