Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.