The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion