A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.