All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.