“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.