Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.