In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

A great social reformer.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.