A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.