Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.