Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.