Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

The harder I work the more I live.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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.