There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
All problems are finally scientific problems.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
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