Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.