The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks.

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.