No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.