A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.