There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

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

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.