The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.