School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. Is it, perchance, cherished by persons who should know better? Then their folly should be brought out into the light of day, and exhibited there in all its hideousness until they flee from it, hiding their heads in shame.

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.