The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.