An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

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

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

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

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.