Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed?

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.