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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. (education)
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. (ability)
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (assassination)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. (youth)
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. (work)
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. (writers and writing)
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. (youth)
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. (youth)
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones. (villains)
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. (writers and writing)
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. (youth)
Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world. (virtue)
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. (virtue)
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does. (wives)
Some men see things as they are and say, Why? I of dream things that never were, and say, Why not? (vision)
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (voting)
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. (violence)
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses. (vegetarianism)
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine. (war)
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. (wisdom)
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. (women)
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