Only good questions deserve good answers.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.