It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs.