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

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.