A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.