We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.