I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against natural economic tendencies.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither its functioning for profit nor its dependence upon legally protected private property; but the presence of a Proletariat, that is of men possessing political freedom, but dispossessed of economic freedom, and existing in such large numbers in any community as to determine the tone of all that community.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.