Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.