All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.