Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.