Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately