Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.