Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.