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

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.