Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.