If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.