If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.