An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.