What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.