Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.