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.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.