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

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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

I never expect a soldier to think.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.