The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.