It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

I work as my father drank.