Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.