The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.