It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

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

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.