There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.