All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.