Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.