Altogether too many sheep

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.