Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.