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.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.