The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately