If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.