The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

God is on the side of the big battalions.