Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is not yet full;so you care for nothing but your own affairs. When you grow up, your vessel overflows; and you are a politician, a philosopher, or an explorer and adventurer. In old age the vessel dries up: there is no overflow: you are a child again.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.