Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.