If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
Principles without programs are platitudes.
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport – in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
You will think less of the art, when you know the artist.
Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.
Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it’s as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you’ll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, “The one I feed the most.”