It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.