The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.