If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.