Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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.