The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.
Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won’t listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.
The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can’t.
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
What’s the use of money if you have to earn it.
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.
Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.
God is on the side of the big battalions.