We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.