Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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.

To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

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