It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.