A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Only poor men get hanged.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.