The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more than a half-hearted attempt. The combats with Mexico and Spain were not wars; they were simply lynchings.

I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.