All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

There are no ugly cigars, only ugly smokers.

Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.

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.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.