Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy it there.
Morality is not respectability.
I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, f...
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequ...
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.