Society and the World

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

A hardened and shameless tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and with tea welcomes the morning.

Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The majority never has right on its side.

The majority never has right on its side.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?

Take away time is money, and what is left of England? take away cotton is king, and what is left of America?