Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.