Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.