Activity is the only road to knowledge.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.