Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty: what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich: that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally.

The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

The most popular method of distributing wealth is the method of the roulette table.

The imagination cannot conceive a viler criminal than he who should build another London like the present one, nor a greater benefactor than he who should destroy it.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Mutiny Acts are needed only by officers who command without authority. Divine right needs no whip.