Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

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

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.