All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
There are laws to protect the freedom of the press’s speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains – chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment – in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.
The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.
Some things you can’t find out; but you will never know you can’t by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can’t find out.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.
The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public.
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.
None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.
Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.
Most people can’t bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.
Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.