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.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.