A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

Why not give Christianity a trial?

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.