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

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!