Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.