My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.