"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity."

"I am a democrat [believer in democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason."