When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.