Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Fashions are induced epidemics.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.