I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

When Bonaparte returned from Italy he called on Mr. Paine and invited him to dinner: in the course of his rapturous address to him he declared that a statue of…

I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine ha…

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine.

I didn't do my best work until I got licked in the head by a horse.

'I don't want to work on stuff I don't like.'

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.