I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.