A political leader worthy of assassination

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

By walking, I found out where I was going.

everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death

I certainly don’t buy into the idea that positive attitudes can somehow mysteriously directly influence physical health outcomes.

Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.