He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.