It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!