Altogether too many sheep

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.