If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.