To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.