If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.