The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.