Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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

There is only one universal passion fear.

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.