Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.