It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.