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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

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All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

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The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

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