Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.