Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.