One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Whenever I hear people discussing birth control, I always remember that I was fifth.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.