[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.