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

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

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

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.