I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).