Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.