What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.