Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

I never expect a soldier to think.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.