Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.