An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.

Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.