The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.