History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.