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.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.