A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.