A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

There are only five things really worth drawing; four of them are pretty girls and the fifth is cats.