Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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