A forest bird never wants a cage.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.