Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?