I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.