The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.