It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

The Nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.