Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.