It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum