When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.