It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.