Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

I go to a better tailor than any of you and pay more for my clothes. The only difference is that you probably don't sleep in yours.

The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.