But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

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

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.