If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Heartbreak is life educating us.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.