A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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.

The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.