In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

Reading musses up my mind.

Justice is incedental to law and order.