Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.