Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

I rather like the World. The Flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.