Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.