The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

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

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Property is organized robbery.