Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.