It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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

The harder I work the more I live.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.