One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

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

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.