There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.