Its just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Go anywhere in England, where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.