A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.

Lack of money is the root of of all evil.