Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.