Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavoured and colored and put into cans.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

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