When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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.