High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Suppose two-thirds of the members of the national House of Representatives were dumped into the Washington garbage incinerator tomorrow, what would we lose to offset our gain of their salaries and the salaries of their parasites?

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

We have had more brilliant Presidents than Cleveland, and one or two who were considerably more profound, but we have never had one, at least since Washington, whose fundamental character was solider and more admirable.

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.