They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.