In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

The best of all lost arts is honesty.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.