Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.