The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.