The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

God must hate common people, because he made them so common.