Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.

Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)

If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.