...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.