Bachelors should be heavily taxed. What luck for rulers, that men do not think. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
The beginning is the most important part of the work. The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. Half of the people in the world are below average. Nothing is easier than being busy - and nothing more difficult than being effective. If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.