It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum