Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.