The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.