Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

SCIENCE NEVER SOLVES A PROBLEM WITHOUT CREATING TEN MORE.

Security, the chief pretence of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone’s head.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Sentimentality is the error of supposing that quarter can be given or taken in moral conflicts.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have do something else.