The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

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.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.