The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
I don’t want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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