I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?