I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.