The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.