The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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.

The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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

All great art and literature is propaganda.