Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.