Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.