Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.