One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything. - Oscar Wilde

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.