What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.