I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.