This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.