By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.