If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.