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

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.