The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.