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

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

It is your human environment that makes climate