You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

I said nothing of the sort.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.