Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.