By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.