Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.