The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.