Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.