Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

A great social reformer.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.