A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.