A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.