Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.