Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.