Property is organized robbery.
He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why not?
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
You don’t get respect if you don’t deserve it
I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
The stars are the apexes of what triangles!
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Women tell men things that they are not likely to find out for themselves.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men’s heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought – with these I deal.
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
