"Beware of jokes from which we go..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Society has no bribe for me.”

“Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.”

“We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.”

“I once went out with this girl, she was no bargain either, she showed up with pigtails under her arms.”

“They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.”

“What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis?”

“The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.”

“Power always brings with it responsibility.”

“We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself.”