“The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

“Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.”

“Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes to-day and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench; I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself.""I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it.”

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”