By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely nothing was uninteresting to him. His curiosity ranged from music to theology and from philosophy to history. He didn't simply know something about everything; he knew a great deal about everything.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people.

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