You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.