The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.