All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.