Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher; it is casting out a devil.