The past is not what it was.

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words - 'free-love' - as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

The only object of liberty is life.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.