After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.

A poet over 30 is pathetic

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them.

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.