I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.