In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.