We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Communism is the opiate of the people.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.