General consultant to mankind.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.