I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

A great social reformer.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.