What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

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.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.