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

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.