I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

Usually I enjoy a first night as a surgeon enjoys an operation: this time I enjoyed it as a playgoer enjoys a pleasant performance. p 267

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.