What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.