The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.