Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, "As unhappy as God."

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.