Liberties are not given, they are taken.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.