Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
An index is a great leveller.
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
Altogether too many sheep.
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.