Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.