Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.