The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.