If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.