“The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.”

“A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.”

“One of the most persistent traits of of the Western white man has always been his fanatical and almost instinctive assumption that his systems and ideas about the world are the most desirable, and further that people who do not aspire to to them, or at least think them admirable, are savages or enemies.”

“Most people are bullied because
they are better than the people who bully them.”

“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.”

“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”

“With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.”

“I cannot ridicule their every idea but in most things my vote is against the education system.”

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”