"A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life."

"..You know that I think a society of impressionists would be a good thing of the same nature as the Society of the Twelve English Pre-Raphaelites, and I think that it could come into existence. Then I…"

"That is the best story he could find in his life, never mind if it's the truest: an artist's duty is always to tell the best story."

"All of these victimizations, the enslavement of species by species, of race by race, and of class by class, are aspects of one and the same fundamental fact. They are all exemplifications of the same …"

"It is perfectly certain that all diseases without exception are preventible, or if not so that they can be so weakened as to do no harm. It is perfectly certain that all accidents are preventible; the…"