Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork.

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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.

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

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.

I also think there are prices too high to pay to save the United States. Conscription is one of them. Conscription is slavery, and I don't think that any people or nation has a right to save itself at the price of slavery for anyone, no matter what name it is called. We have had the draft for twenty years now; I think this is shameful. 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!