The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.