Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

'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.'

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Art is the signature of man.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.