It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.