The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.