If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.