We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

I would give a woman not more rights, but more privileges. Instead of sending her to seek such freedom as notoriously prevails in banks and factories, I would design specially a house in which she can be free.