I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.