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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. (marriage)
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. (leisure)
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. (manners)
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. (intentions)
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. (language)
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. (imagination)
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases. (language)
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. (ideas)
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. (love)
He who has never hoped can never despair. (hope)
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. (humankind)
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. (photography)
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. (kings)
All progress means war with society. (progress)
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married. (morality)
Lack of money is the root of all evil. (money)
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis. (money)
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. (money)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (mistakes)
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. (professions and prof)
All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. (progress)
Common people do not pray; they only beg. (prayer)
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor. (prison)
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. (morality)
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it. (motives)
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