It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.