Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.