It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.