Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.