I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.