Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.