Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.

Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.