An index is a great leveller.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
All problems are finally scientific problems.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one’s heart; but death is a splendid thing –a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
A hen is only a egg’s way of making another egg.
To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
Our planet is being turned into a filthy and evil-smelling imperialist barrack.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
