“Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.”

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

So many of us need so much less than we have, especially when so many of us are in need.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.