No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.