All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.