Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.