Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.