I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.