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

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.