What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.