When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.