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.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.