Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.