The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.