I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.