Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.