The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Youth is just wasted on young people.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.