Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

Fear is choosing the safe course

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.