In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament.